Mark Zuckerberg Reportedly Leveraged His Young Daughter to Win Over Trump as Meta Fought for Influence

Trump Brandished Fawning Texts From Zuck And Bezos

Wired reports: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos sought to ingratiate themselves with President Donald Trump after he won the 2024 election, and in return he mocked their efforts behind their backs, according to a new book by the New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan. Zuckerberg once texted Trump a photo of a letter written by one of his grade-school-age children, who wrote that they “looked forward to t…

Mark Zuckerberg Reportedly Leveraged His Young Daughter to Win Over Trump as Meta Fought for Influence

Mark Zuckerberg reportedly handed Donald Trump a deeply personal bargaining chip in Meta's bid for political favour: a photograph of a handwritten letter from one of his own young daughters, in which the child wrote that she 'looked forward to the golden age of America', echoing a campaign slogan Trump used throughout 2024. The claim forms part of a wider account of how Zuckerberg and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos courted Trump after his election wi…